Friday, August 29, 2008

Destin Day 5

Day 5 in Destin. We spent the evening at the beach. The kids had fun playing in the sand.
Kaitlyn and I went to get pedicures today. See our pretty pink toes!!
Someone was building a huge pyramid in the sand so the kids were playing king of the hill!!


Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Destin Day 3

This is where we had dinner on Monday evening. It is right on the beach witha great view!!!
This is the view from our table. We sat and watched people parasailing.
We spent today snorkeling and watching for dolphins. I didn't take my digital camera, so no pics of that. We did have an underwater camera, maybe I will post those later. Kaitlyn loved snorkeling. She was the one who was scared and ended up loving it. There were a lot of BIG jellyfish around, luckily no one was stung. We saw four dolphins on our cruise. There was one baby swimming along with it's momma. It was pretty neat!!!
We went to the beach around 7 tonight and the kids dug in the sand some more. They can not get enough of it!!! We stayed until after dark. I did get some pretty good pictures of them at sunset. At the beach Tuesday, update more then.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Destin Day II

Day two in Destin. We played in the sand a lot today. We tried to make a sand castle, but we were not very good at it. But we had fun trying. Don't look at the rolls. You should have seen them in the bikini yesterday!!!
The Girl is ready to hit the water. She is getting ready to ask dad to go board with her!!
The Boy built all kinds of stuff. He spent a lot of time on the beach today.
The Girl loved walking up and down the beach to look for shells and sand dollars. She actually found a sand dollar that was mostly intact, but we didn't realize how fragile it was and it got broken. Last night after it got dark, we went back out to the beach to find sand crabs. They are very little and very fast. We walked for a long time before we realized what we were looking for. We ended up with quite a few in out bucket. It was a lot of fun!! Tonight we went to eat at Fudpuckers. They have live alligators that you can feed. The kids loved that!! They also got to hold one and have their picture taken with it. Can you believe I forgot my camera!!! More adventures tomorrow!!!

Destin, Florida

Well, that doesn't look like Destin!!!
We finally made it!!! The beach has been great so far. No rain yet!!!
I was a little grouchy when we woke up Saturday morning and looked at the forcast. It looked like it was pooring on the coast. We arrived about 1pm and it was sunny!!! We had another sunny day today!!! About the car.............. Friday before we left, we decided to go car shopping. We ended up buying a GMC Acadia. I love it!! I haven't actually driven it since we test drove it, but I'm sure I love it!!! Rick drove the entire way here. Didn't bother me a bit!! I got a lot of napping in on the 11 hour drive!!
The girl is perfecting the hand stand on the beach. She was scared to get into the water at first, but she decided that she loves boogy boarding!! She is still a litte scared of the jelly fish.
The boy loves the water!!! He is a natural!! I think he would like to live here!!
The Girl would fit in here as well!!
This is the view from out balcony. It was starting to get a little overcast when I took this picture. This picture doesn't do it justice. The water is a very pretty blue-green color. More to share tomorrow!!!